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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 1942
The Battalion
STUDENT TRI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion, official newspaper of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College o£. Texas and the City of Cpllege Station,
is published three times weekly, and issued Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday mornings.
Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at College
Station, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1870.
Subscription rates 53 a school year. Advertising rates
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nd
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1941 Member 1942
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Editor-in-Chief
Associate Editor
Staff Photographer
Mike Haikin
Mike Mann...
Chick Hurst.
Sports
Staff
Sports Editor
Assistant Sports Editor
Senior Sports Assistant
Reggie Smith
Jack E. Carter
Louis A. Bridges.
Jay Pumphrey
F. D. Asbury, Jr
Bill Huber
H. R. Tampke
Carlton Power
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Editor
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Reporters
Ramon McKinney, John Baldridge, Tom Journeay, Charles
Kaplan, Bob Garrett, Gerald Fahrenthold, and Bert Kurtz.
Cooperation With Navy
Until last week-end the corps as a whole
had manifested a wonderful spirit of coop
eration with the members of the navy
stationed here on the campus; but like all
good things it wasn't to last.
While it might be trivial to some it was
the first step in starting an un-needed riv
alry between the cadet corps and the navy.
A small group of Aggies decided that
they wouldn’t patronize the juke box prom
which was being given them but would edge
in on the dance being given for the navy
and marines stationed on the campus.
This is not right and should be stopped
before the military authorities of the college
find that it is no longer incidental and de
cide to rigidly enforce the rules governing
such conduct.
An agreement has been made that the
navy will not be allowed to attend any
dances given for the cadet corps and the
Aggies should extend the same courtesy to
their new neighbors.
Evening Colleges
In wartime most schools and colleges are
confronted with the problem of decreasing
enrollments and, at the same time, with the
necessity of maintaining staff, plant and
the ordinary activities of peace-time educa
tion. The need for men in the armed forces
and in productive capacities is expected to
make great inroads into the student body of
men’s colleges and universities the -country
over.
It might be expected, too, that the eve
ning college, for so many years considered
an educational anomaly, would fall by the
wayside along with what have been termed
“marginal” educational programs. On the
contrary, the evening college has been quiet
ly but persistently becoming an important
and vital part of the educational scene in
urban communities and, unless great diffi
culties arise from transportation problems
and shifting hours of labor, it will lose fewer
students, comparatively, than will the day
colleges.
This is partly because many of the men
in the evening colleges have dependents or
will be deferred because of their occupations,
and also because larger numbers of women
are enrolling yearly in evening college pro
grams. Curtailments, therefore, will be minor
and should not affect the stability or the
prestige of this group.
A real boom will be experienced by the
evening colleges for several years after the
war is over. Thousands of resident students
who have joined the armed forces may later
choose to finish their educational program
in the evening college. Also hundreds of
thousands of others who have been trained
in the production skills of defense industries
will be faced with the necessity of re-educat
ing themselves for peacetime activities. The
evening college will be ideal for this purpose.
Although no evening college administra
tive officer would place his program above
that of the regular resident offerings, he can
still point out some unique advantages for
the evening college.
The evening college is not an educational
cure-all. To work by day and study by night
requires a high degree of energy and deter
mination and, above all, a superior ability.
Students lacking these qualities soon drop
out of the evening college, leaving those men
and women who are destined to take their
places in the future leadership of our coun
try.
Although the traditional conservatism
of the usual college faculty is so deep-rooted
as to make basic academic change a slow and
deliberate process, the development of the
evening college has been so far-reaching as
to astonish even some of the more liberal
professors. Not so long ago most evening col
lege students were considered academic out
casts. They received no credit for the work
done, regardless of its quality or of the
courses taken. They had to be satisfied with
the “cultural” value of the program, wheth
er it was in engineering, science or the arts.
Man, Your Manners
By I. Sherwood —
Traveling by plane is becoming more and
more an economic-means of travel for busi
ness men, and should prove a thrilling expe
rience for anyone. The trip is made all the
more enjoyable by the airline officials’ and
stewardesses’ desire to be helpful.
Baggage is restricted both as to size and
weight, so you should find out the maximum
amount; some lines permit forty pounds.
Since your bags are stored in the front of
the plane, you will do well to take out any
thing you might need before you go aboard.
On a sleeper plane, however, you are allowed
to take one small case to your seat. The
stewardess will see that you are supplied
with gum, cigarettes, magazines, blankets,
and pillows. And being a registered nurse,
she is also available in case you become air
sick or need medical attention. Should air
sickness nauseate you, use the container
that is provided.
Abide by every rule of the airline, for
they are made for your own protection.
Buckle and unbuckle your safety belt when
directed, and don’t smoke until the signal in
dicates that it’s permissible. Some lines have
rules about drinking, so abide by them. One
of the worst breeches of etiquette is to of
fer the stewardess a drink.
Meals served aboard are often compli
mentary on some lines, and you may state
your choice when a selection is offered. The
pilot is addressed as Captain , and
the stewardess as Miss . You do not
tip either the pilot or the stewardess. It is
not allowed and might prove embarrassing
to you both.
Penny's Serenade
__________ By W. L. Penberthy ________
In my opinion one of the best of the old say
ings is “Work begun is half done.” This say
ing puts a great deal of emphasis on the
start of any task.
In sports, especially the racing ones,
much emphasis is placed on the start. I have
known of several instances where a very
ordinary performer would have been great
had he been able to get off to a fast start. I
have witnessed several athletic contests in
our own conference in which one team got
off to an early lead and the opponent was
never able to overcome the advantage gained
by that lead while the team having the jump
commanded the situation throughout the
contest.
I do not think that too much emphasis
can be placed on a good start, regardless of
the field of endeavor, and this is particularly
true in the case of school work. If we get
off to a flying start it makes it much easier
to keep our assignments up to date and our
work a real pleasure, where if we get be
hind at the onset it is an uphill pull to catch
up and very often we wear ourselves out in
the attempt yet never get the job done. Dur
ing this time we are usually very unhappy
over the situation.
It has been my observation that most of
us can accomplish almost anything we set
out to do if we are sufficiently interested
and are willing to put forth the effort. This
leads me to the belief that we can get off to
a swell start if we just make up our minds.
There is also an old saying something
to the effect that “A good start means a
poor finish,” and vice versa, but personally
this saying has never given me much con
solation after I have bungled the start of a
task and I am sure that I would rather have
my money on the boy with a good start,
everything else being equal. We all like to
have and see a strong finish but many a
strong finish has failed to achieve victory
because of the too great handicap of a poor
start.
The ivisdom of the wise and the experi
ence of the ages may be preserved by quo
tation.
The rapidity with which this tradition
is breaking down is not only a source of re
joicing to many thousands of young men and
women who must seek employment upon
graduation from high school and who desire
accredited college degree work in the eve
ning, but it is also a source of great interest
to college faculties who expected that eve
ning college start performance would be of a
grade inferior to the work of the day stu
dent. In the evening college of Rutgers uni
versity, with 2,100 men and women enrolled,
the scholastic average is not only compar
able to, but has been higher than, the aver
age of resident students.
This is easily explained, for, by the very
nature of evening college work, the inferior
student finds the going too hard. By a pro
cess of natural selection a picked group of
mature men and women are left who are
planning and paying for their own programs
of higher education.
The evening colleges face a real oppor
tunity with this group in the years after the
war. With a vast rehabilitation program in
the offing, the sound, established evening
college will be one of th emost logical acces
sible of educational programs open to young
adults whose education will be curtailed by
war demands.
During the current year the evening
college must do more than merely mark
time. It must be planning its program, de
veloping its faculties and facilities, and or
ganizing all its resources to enable it to
carry the load that is certain to come.—N.
C. Miller, Dean, University College, Rutgers
University.—AGP.
PRIVATE BUCK .-. By Clyde Lewis
“I suggest you check with the Camouflage Division. Private
Buck. I don’t think that’s exactly what they had in mindU
BACKWASH Jack Hood
Ar» atritfttion rranJihasr from airtion or wwarreTicap.**—WHbwtgy
Add Another ....
... to the Aggie Honor Roll.
Ensign George H. Gay, ’40, pan
caked his plane into a gigantic
naval battle, escaped on a rubber
life raft, and lived to describe the
sinking of three Jap plane car
riers . . .
Thumb-nailing: Ensign Gay,
born in Waco, calls Houston
“home”, but Dal-
• Irf IPPIp R e was i n Bat-
: ; tillery, for three
Jllliff hitu,. and a half years
M Jllllt... a restless,
illlllll thrill-loving boy
Hood W ^° three
times before he passed the Air
Corps physical—he worked for a
construction company to toughen
up between physicals . . . While in
A. & M., he and Owen Cook built
and occasionally flew a plane.
When he got his wings, he re
quested service aboard an air
craft carrier . . . promised his
Dad he would get a Jap sub for
him . . . Monday his father got
a wire reading: “GOT WHAT YOU
WANTED, DAD . . . DOING
FINE . . . LETTER FOLLOWS.”
• • •
Hint
For ten bucks worth of enjoy
ment, buy a TOWN HALL ticket
for $1.00 . . . Funnyman-Pianist
Henry Scott, appearing June 16,
will be worth your dollar . . . and
Jean Dickenson — Mmmmmm!!!
There’ll be somebody around sell
ing tickets in your dorm.
• • •
Sweeping’s
Forward: It’s rumored the Bry
an gals have a new verse that
runs: “Honey, you will always be
the sweetest boy of all to me, as
long as you stay as you are—and
retain that nice new car” ... It
seems a fish got a roaring case
of the botts and took out for home
AWOL as a week-end senior . . .
(See BACKWASH, Page 4)
COVERING
campus disiractiofis
By
JACK
KEITH
Guion Hall is showing Thurs
day and Friday afternoons and
nights, “BORN TO SING”, star
ring Virginia Weidler. This is the
story of a group of youngsters
who, with the aid of a gangster,
recover a musical show which a
crooked producer has stolen.
Ray McDonald, Leo Gorcey and
“Rags” Ragland are in Miss Weid-
ler’s supporting cast as the three
boys who help her get her Dad’s
show script. The part of the fath
er and play-writer is played by
Henry O’Neill.
In attempting to regain the
script, a job they undertook be
cause of O’Neill’s attempted sui
cide, the boys are framed on an
extortion charge. With the aid of
a crook, they manage to induce
all the fake producer’s audience
to attend their own show and ev
erything turns out okay. High
lights of the show are Richard
Hall’s unique dialogue and ability
as a musician and the antics of
the comedian, Leo Gorcey.
The Lowdown:—Good to the last
scene.
“ALMOST MARRIED” is show
ing today only at the Campus.
Players are Jane Frazee, Robert
Paige, Eugene Pallette and Eliza
beth Patterson. “Almost Married”
is about a mix-up between a man
about town and a night club sing
er who pretend to be married be
cause of necessity.
Robert Paige, as the playboy,
and Jane Frazee, as the singer,
carry on their simulated marriage
until social pressure makes a di
vorce necessary. , This turn of
events necessitates a secret mar
riage, but love steps in before the
divorce is obtained and they live
happily ever after—really mar
ried.
The Lowdown:—Novel, to say
WHAT’S SHOWING
AT THE CAMPUS
Thursday—“Almost Mar
ried” with Jane Frazee and
Robert Paige.
Friday,.. Saturday—“Gen
tleman After Dark” with
Brian Donlevy, Miriam Hop
kins and Preston Foster.
AT GUION HALL
Thursday, Friday—“Born
to Sing” with Virginia Wied-
ler and Ray McDonald.
Saturday — “Kathleen,”
starring Shirley Temple
with Herbert Marshall and
Laraine Day.
the least.
“A GENTLEMAN AFTER
DARK,” with Brian Donlevy,
Miriam Hopkins and Preston Fos
ter, is offered at the Campus Fri
day and Saturday. The story of a
gentleman crook who wants to
turn straight after his wife gives
birth to a baby girl, “A Gentle
man After Dark, is a portrayal of
the story “A Whiff of Heliotrope.”
Bryan Donlevy as the crook and
Miriam Hopkins as his wife are
partners in. crime until the birth
of their daughter. Then another
gangster induces Miss Hopkins to
ditch her family and double-cross
her husband. Donlevy manages to
elude the police after being dou
ble-crossed and arranges with one
of the officers, Preston Foster,
for him to take the baby and re
ceive the reward which is on his
own head.
After eighteen years, when the
daughter is about to get married,
Hopkins returns to blackmail Fos
ter for $50,000. Donlevy breaks
jail and takes care of his wife
and her partner in proper gang
ster style.
The Lowdown:—Good acting by
all concerned.
Thursday — Friday
Saturday
ANN SHERIDAN
ROBERT CUMMINGS
in
With Ronald Reagan
PREVIEW 11:00 P. M.
SATURDAY NIGHT
GEORGE RAFT
“BROADWAY”
Shown Sun.-Mon.-Tues.
Iowa State Prof
Shows Chem Majors
Trail to Half Billion^
AMES, Iowa—(AGP)—On the
trail of a half billion dollars, or
more! No this is not a tale of a
high-pressure fiction detective but
just part of the routine of two
- chemical engineering graduate
students at Iowa State college, F.
E. Campbell and Burdette Jones.
A complete record of Kent State
university housing facilities is be
ing made by sociology students to
be forwarded to the War Depart
ment for use in case of an emerg
ency.
Dial 4-1181
Box Office Opens 1 P.M.
TODAY ONLY
Also
CARTOON ~ SPORT
WORLD TODAY
FRIDAY - SATURDAY
“GENTLEMAN
AFTER DARK”
with
BRIAN DONLEVY
MIRIAM HOPKINS
Also /
Community Sing
Three Stooges -- News
Patronize Our Agent In Your Outfit.
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D. M. DANSBY, ’37
Aggies
TRY OUR FOUNTAIN
FOR RELIEF FROM THE HEAT!
You Name It and We Will
Fix It
Also a Complete Line of Drugs
Aggieland Pharmacy
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At the North Gate I
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MOVIE
Guion Hall
Thursday - Friday
3:30 — 7:00
YOUTH HAS ITS FLING
* Virginia Weidler - Ray McDonald
"BORN to SING"
Comedy -o- News -o- Cartoon
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• • •
Coming Saturday
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
"KATHLEEN”